The Marital Communications Privilege in Prisons & Jails
admin | May 13, 2009
On May 1, 2009, the NC Supreme Court decided the case of State v. Rollins, in which it determined that a defendant can not use the marital-communication privilege to prevent his wife from testifying against him in a criminal proceeding because the communications occurred in the prison’s public visiting areas. This decision reverses the Court [...]
